Don’t believe me? Whistle a few tunes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or A Fistful of Dollars sometime, and you might find that even people who’ve never seen a frame of a spaghetti Western will know what you’re referencing. In fact, many people who’ve never seen a single film scored by the prolific Morricone can probably still easily identify many of his musical themes. His influence is monumental across musical genres, and his innovations have been adopted even by avant-garde musicians. Because to say that Morricone is a great soundtrack composer - or even the greatest of all soundtrack composers - doesn’t quite do him justice. (Indeed, it’s the first time any composer has scored an entire movie for Tarantino, who generally prefers his music repurposed.) Morricone, age 86, has continued to work fairly steadily, but it will be exciting for those of us who are fans of the composer to see the spotlight shine brightly on him once again. Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight is the first time that the legendary composer Ennio Morricone has scored an entire movie for the spaghetti Western–loving director. We’re republishing it in memory of Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who died on Jin Rome. This article was originally posted in 2015.
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